''Tom Turk and Daffy'' is a 1944
Warner Bros.
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Looney Tunes
''Looney Tunes'' is an American Animated cartoon, animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. starting from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with its partner series ''Merrie Melodies'', during the golden age of American animation. '' cartoon directed by
Chuck Jones
Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, director, and painter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of shorts. He wrote, produ ...
.
The cartoon was released on February 12, 1944, and stars
Porky Pig
Porky Pig is an animated character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his celebrity, star power, and the animators created ma ...
and
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon fictional character, character created for Warner Bros. Cartoons, Leon Schlesinger Productions by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett. Styled as an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic American black duck, black ...
.
Michael Maltese
Michael Maltese (February 6, 1908 – February 22, 1981) was an American story man for classic animated cartoon shorts. He is best known for working in the 1950s on a series of ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoons with director Chuck Jones, notably "Wha ...
and
Tedd Pierce
Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III (August 12, 1906 – February 19, 1972) was an American screenwriter and voice actor of animated cartoons, principally from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s.
Biography
Pierce was the son of a stockbroker, Samue ...
are both the writers of the short, and are credited here as "The Staff".
The voices of Daffy and Porky were provided by
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy ra ...
, while Tom Turk was voiced by
Billy Bletcher
William Bletcher (September 24, 1894 – January 5, 1979) was an American actor. He was known for voice roles for various classic animated characters, most notably Pete in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse short films and the Big Bad Wolf in Disney' ...
.
Plot
On a cold snowy day,
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon fictional character, character created for Warner Bros. Cartoons, Leon Schlesinger Productions by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett. Styled as an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic American black duck, black ...
is making a
snowman
A snowman is an anthropomorphic snow sculpture of a man often built in regions with sufficient snowfall and is a common winter tradition. In many places, typical snowmen consist of three large snowballs of different sizes with some additional ...
until he hears gunfire in the distance. A
turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
, named Tom Turk, desperately begs Daffy to hide him from
Porky Pig
Porky Pig is an animated character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his celebrity, star power, and the animators created ma ...
, who here is portrayed as a
pilgrim
A pilgrim (from the Latin ''peregrinus'') is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on Pilgrimage, a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journey (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the a ...
hunting for a turkey for a turkey dinner. Daffy agrees and hides Tom in the snowman he made and proclaims to Porky that he won't tell him where his turkey went, as locks appear on his beak. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "What a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal. What a pal". However, Daffy eventually gives in after Porky mentions all the food he would've prepared for dinner, including
candied yams, standing on a stool marked "
stool pigeon", rushing the snowman with Tom inside in front of Porky, and putting up hundreds of signs pointing to it. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "
Quisling
''Quisling'' (, ) is a term used in Scandinavian languages and in English meaning a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force – or more generally as a synonym for ''traitor''. The word ori ...
".
Tom Turk, betrayed by Daffy's perfidious attitude, digs under the snowman and plucks his back feathers onto Daffy, who was breaking down for being a stool pigeon to him. Porky then mistakes Daffy as the turkey he was hunting, which Daffy denies ("Turkey? Who's a turkey? Now wait a minute,
Myles Standish
Myles Standish (c. 1584 – October 3, 1656) was an English military officer and colonizer. He was hired as military adviser for Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, United States by the Pilgrims. Standish accompanied the Pilgrims on ...
. I'm a duck. Quack, quack, quack! I can swim. Observe."), and Porky proceeds to chase him across the snowy landscape, with Daffy rolling down each hill in a giant
snowball
A snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands, and pressing the snow together to compact it into a ball. Snowballs are often used in games such as snowball fights.
A snowball may also be a large ...
. Daffy hides, then deliberately pelts Porky with snowballs offscreen, then wallops him on the head with a
mallet
A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head. The term is descriptive of the overall size and proport ...
in a giant flying snowball. He gets some water out of a frozen lake and throws it at Porky. The water freezes into a
bucket
A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical Cylinder (geometry), cylinder or Truncation (geometry), truncated Cone (geometry), cone or square, with an open top and a flat bottom, attached to a semicircular carrying handle (grip), handle called ...
-shaped piece of ice as it flies at Porky, hitting him. Daffy remarks, "Cool as a
cucumber
Cucumber (''Cucumis sativus'') is a widely-cultivated Vine#Horticultural climbing plants, creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae family that bears usually cylindrical Fruit, fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables. ". Porky wakes up, and chases him. Daffy deliberately throws water on himself, freezing for protection. Porky hits him with his gun, breaking the ice in half, only to vibrate. Daffy uses water from a river to make an ice
bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...
, and, disguised as a
toll collector
A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road, canal, or toll bridge.
History
Many tollhouses were built by turnpike trusts in England, Wales and Scotland during the 18th and ...
, tricks Porky into paying the 10¢
toll
Toll may refer to:
Transportation
* Toll (fee) a fee charged for the use of a road or waterway
** Road pricing, the modern practice of charging for road use
** Road toll (historic), the historic practice of charging for road use
** Shadow toll, ...
. Porky crosses the ice bridge, only to realize that Daffy made a
dunce
Dunce is a mild insult in English meaning "a person who is slow at learning or stupid". The etymology given by Richard Stanyhurst is that the word is derived from the name of the Scottish Scholastic theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus.
...
, a
dope, and a
sucker
Sucker may refer to:
General use
* Lollipop or sucker, a type of confection
* Sucker (slang), a slang term for a very gullible person
* Hard candy
** Cough drop
** Mint (candy)
Biology
* Sucker (botany), a term for a shoot that arises undergro ...
out of him when he envisions himself first wearing a
dunce cap
Dunce is a mild insult in English meaning "a person who is slow at learning or stupid". The etymology given by Richard Stanyhurst is that the word is derived from the name of the Scottish Scholastic theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus.
...
, then as a bottle of
dope, and finally a
sucker
Sucker may refer to:
General use
* Lollipop or sucker, a type of confection
* Sucker (slang), a slang term for a very gullible person
* Hard candy
** Cough drop
** Mint (candy)
Biology
* Sucker (botany), a term for a shoot that arises undergro ...
. This makes him angry, and then he starts running in place, angrily smiling, kicking snow back as he has finally lost his
sanity
Sanity (from la, sāntā) refers to the soundness, rationality, and health of the human mind, as opposed to insanity. A person is sane if they are rational. In modern society, the term has become exclusively synonymous with ''compos mentis'' ( ...
, and then runs at Daffy. Daffy, realizing he's angered Porky, runs as Porky angrily chases him, on the
warpath
Warpath may refer to:
*Great Indian Warpath, a network of trails in eastern North America used by Native Americans
Games
* ''Warpath'' (video game), a 2006 FPS video game by Digital Extremes for the PC and Xbox
*'' Warpath: Jurassic Park'', a 199 ...
against him, charging through a rock and snow, running out of a pile of snow as a snow
tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engin ...
. Daffy ditches him in a
snow bank, then runs back to Tom, who was building another snowman. Daffy meets up with him again, and begs Tom to help him hide from Porky. Tom agrees, and "attempts" to hide Daffy in different places, but finds all of them fruitless. The cartoon ends with Tom continuously "hiding" Daffy in different places into the night.
Cast
*
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy ra ...
as Daffy Duck, Porky Pig
*
Billy Bletcher
William Bletcher (September 24, 1894 – January 5, 1979) was an American actor. He was known for voice roles for various classic animated characters, most notably Pete in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse short films and the Big Bad Wolf in Disney' ...
as Tom Turk (uncredited)
Home media
* VHS - Cartoon Moviestars: Porky Pig and Friends
* LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes
* DVD -
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham
See also
*
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–49)
*
List of Daffy Duck cartoons
This is a list of the various animated cartoons featuring Daffy Duck.
Daffy Duck shorts 1937−1968
1937
*''Porky's Duck Hunt'' April 17, 1937 (LT, Tex Avery) - with Porky Pig
1938
*'' Daffy Duck & Egghead'' January 1, 1938 (MM, Avery) ...
*
Porky Pig filmography
This is a list of all cartoons featuring Porky Pig. Directors are listed in parentheses.
Porky Pig shorts 1935
* ''I Haven't Got a Hat'' (March 2, 1935) - "Merrie Melodies" series, Porky's first appearance (Friz Freleng)
* ''Country Mouse'' (Ju ...
* ''
Jerky Turkey
''Jerky Turkey'' is a 1945 in film, 1945 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon directed by Tex Avery.
Plot
In 1620, Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony), Pilgrims, riding a caricatured ''Mayflower'' with a number of World War II-era anachronisms (such as a navy gu ...
''
References
External links
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